I suspect that many of you reading this are secretly pining to become a real estate agent, since you get such a pretty picture of what Realtors deal with to land those embarrassingly huge commission checks.

One of the most important things I do for buyers is to actually read the multiple listing service reports and look at all the pictures of homes that appear on the surface to be a reasonable match for that specific clients’ wants and needs.

Irvine-based Hyundai Capital America is taking over a new office building in Newport Beach’s Koll Center, leasing 177,000 square feet to consolidate three temporary expansions that occurred over the past three years.
The firm, which provides auto loans for both Hyundai and Kia dealerships, has its headquarters and is the nam

Orange County home prices ended 2014 up 3.8 percent, the smallest annual appreciation rate in three years due in part to a decline in investor speculation.
The CoreLogic Home Price Index, which measures sale price changes in more than 900 U.S. metro areas, showed also that Orange County's home price

Asking rent for large-complex apartments jumped almost 5 percent in Orange County last year, apartment tracker RealFacts reported this week. And because vacancy rates are low, rents are likely to go nowhere but up in the year ahead.
Orange County apartment landlords were asking an average of $1,781 a